2 February 2017

TMB revises 2017 sales forecasts

The Tripe Marketing Board has
sharply upgraded its forecast for UK tripe sales, predicting that tripe output will expand as fast this year as it did last year and
that sales will be much more buoyant than it predicted before the EU referendum in 2016.

Speaking to an audience of meat trade experts in Preston earlier today, TMB chairman Sir Norman Wrassle said the tripe industry was at a turning point and that 2017 could see the first increase in tripe sales since 1954.

"It's too early to tell, but the indicators are all there," Sir Norman said, adding that retailers had reported the smallest ever decline in quarterly sales in the autumn. "This means that fewer people than ever before are turning away from tripe and it could well mean that sales will actually increase at some point this year," he said.